O Christian, if you have trusted in Christ, then in His dear name set out to prove that you are a changed person! There ought to be a change in habits, a change in attitude, a making right of things wrong, for one who is saved. - John R. Rice [Is God A "Dirty Bully"?, published 1958, pg. 197]
God intended the man to be a picture of God. In 1 Corinthians 11:7 the Scripture says, "For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man." God is just saying that a woman is given long hair as a veiling, a covering, a reminder and picture of submission to her husband and father. Yes, that Scripture says that if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her, but if a man have long hair, it is a shame to him. For there is nobody between a man and Christ Jesus. So the man is not to wear long hair. Men take off their hats in church. So the man represents God in a particular sense that women and children do not. The pronouns about God in the Bible are HE and HIS and HIM. - John R. Rice [God in Your Family, pg. 39]
“But another question will answer this one: How can the Lord Jesus in Heaven be happy? Surely He knows all things here. He looked into Hell and heard the cries of the rich man tormented in flame. And He, with God the Father, knows the fall of every sparrow and numbers every hair on every head. He looks at the heart of every unrepentant sinner and grieves at the mistakes and failures of every Christian. Can Jesus be happy in Heaven? The Scripture answers: "He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied" (Isa. 53:11). We know that Jesus on earth looked forward to the joy in Heaven, for we are told: "Who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God" (Heb. 12:2). Yes, Jesus, knowing all the wickedness of this world, is happy in Heaven. So are the saints in Heaven.”
― John R. Rice, Bible Facts About Heaven
Psalms, 119, verse 153, "Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever." Not that He is going to found them after they are written, but they are already founded forever, already settled in Heaven. And so when Isaiah was inspired to write something, he wrote down what God had already written in Heaven and put it in Isaiah's heart and mind to read it. All the Bible is the inspired Word of God. Thank God for that! - John R. Rice [The Christian and His BIBLE, pg. 6-7]
God's children have so much in common that the fellowship should always be sweet. At Inchon, Korea, I preached to old bearded men sitting cross-legged on the polished church floor, and to Christian young people seated on pews in the back. I preached standing barefooted on a pillow. But God gave us tears, repentance, salvation and rejoicing together. God's people are my people. I must love them, have fellowship with them whenever I can. We spoke a different language, but had a common Saviour and salvation. Our dress was different but our hearts were alike. - John R. Rice [The Church of God at Corinth, pg. 24]
"Eye hath not seen . . ." (1 Cor. 2, vs. 9). On television we see nightly "Eyewitness News." That is not the way we got the Bible. Who saw and record as eyewitnesses the creation of the universe and all that is in it in six days, as recorded in Genesis? No, God revealed those facts by His Spirit to Moses. How did Moses know the genealogies of those who lived before the flood and other long lists of genealogies not written down before Moses? Did he see old records and copy them? No, they were revealed by the Spirit of God. Human records would almost certainly be faulty, and a human copyist would somewhere make mistakes. No, wonderful things are prepared for us in the Bible. "Eye hath not seen." - John R. Rice [The Church of God at Corinth, pg. 32]
". . . nor ear heard" (1 Cor. 2, vs. 9). The Scriptures are not based on the testimony of what people heard. Someone supposes as a church father suggested, that Mark was with Peter, and Peter told Mark of the things that happened in the Gospel, so Mark wrote them down for Peter. No, no! Mark was inspired of God directly. The words were God's words. Someone thinks that Luke must have received the matter about which he wrote from the Apostle Paul, and so the book of Acts would have "apostolic authority" back of it. No, the wonderful things God prepared for us who love Him in God's revelation are not the things which the ear heard. - John R. Rice [The Church of God at Corinth, pg. 33]
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